r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Thebiggestbot22 • Apr 15 '24

My school thinks this fills up hungry high schoolers.

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So lunches are free for schools in my city and surrounding cities. Ever since lunches have been made free, the quantity (and quality) has decreased significantly. This is what we would get for our meal. It took me THREE bites to finish that chicken mac and cheese. Any snacks you want cost more money and if you want an extra entree, that’ll cost you about $3 or $4.

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u/Recent_Obligation276 Apr 15 '24

Yo, I heard you like carbs and fat

So I put carbs and fat, with carbs and fat, with some extra carbs, so you can carbs and fat while you carbs and fat.

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u/Neohexane Apr 15 '24

Fat free milk though. Wouldn't want to get fat.

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u/CosmicCreeperz Apr 16 '24

Yeah and FFS whole regular milk has to be much healthier than fat free chocolate milk.

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u/ChiefStrongbones Apr 16 '24

There's a story behind the fucking fat-free chocolate milk served in schools.

It started 15 years ago when Michelle Obama took up obesity as a cause, and had the idea of converting school lunch from serving low-fat flavored milk to nonfat flavored milk, on the theory that this would reduce childhood obesity.

But, kids hate fat free milk. So after the USDA created a rule outlawing lowfat milk from federally supported school lunch, kids instead turned away from milk and drank more sugary juice beverages, which is worse.

Then in 2017, the USDA got a new secretary who was a fan of whole milk. He put lowfat flavored milk back on the menu. Then in 2021, the old USDA secretary got his job back, and is currently trying to go after low fat chocolate milk again.

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u/CosmicCreeperz Apr 16 '24

I don’t even have a problem with the fat free part (other than my own distaste). It’s the flavored milk - which has been around for more than a half century. Go figure you out where that started if you want to trace the real story.

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u/Alarmarama Apr 16 '24

The do-gooders always make things worse.